Sep 5 2018 Topics Affirmative Action • Civil Rights Blog Post News What Does DOJ’s Statement of Interest Filed in the Harvard Case Mean? Alison E. Somin Recently, the Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in a lawsuit against Harvard University...
Jul 11 2018 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Civil Rights • Education Policy • Regulatory Transparency Project Blog Post News Trump Administration Withdraws Guidance on Affirmative Action In Admissions Alison E. Somin On Wednesday, July 3, the Departments of Education and Justice announced that they withdrew a...
Dec 15 2016 Topics Civil Rights Blog Post News Make the Civil Rights Division Great Again? -- Notes on "This is What a Trump Civil Rights Agenda Should Look Like" Clint Bolick, Alison E. Somin Robert Driscoll has an outstanding post up at National Review Online titled “This is What...
Aug 15 2016 Blog Post News How Republicans Feed the Beast of Political Correctness Alison E. Somin John Fund has an excellent column up at National Review Online on "How Republicans Feed...
Jun 23 2016 Topics Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News "Affirmative Action Gone Wild?": Supreme Court Upholds Race Preferences in Fisher v. University of Texas II William C. Rempel, Alison E. Somin I like to think I am unusually gifted at political prognostication because, in 2004, I...
Mar 23 2016 Topics Civil Rights • Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News Two Members of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Criticize Racially Themed Housing on College Campuses Alison E. Somin Should colleges and universities be in the business of operating racially separate “theme housing?” Two...
Mar 22 2016 Topics Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News Should Congress Enact the Blue Lives Matter Act of 2016? Alison E. Somin Recently, Representative Ken Buck introduced the Blue Lives Matter Act of 2016, which would amend...
Feb 6 2016 Topics Civil Rights • Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and Russia Today Steffen N. Johnson, Alison E. Somin Yesterday, Commissioners Gail Heriot and Peter Kirsanow sent a letter explaining why they had declined to...
Dec 15 2015 Topics Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News Fisher II, Academic Mismatch, and the Constitution: A Legal Issue, or Just a Policy One? Alison E. Somin Following Justice Scalia's controversial question about mismatch research at the Fisher v. Texas oral argument, some commentators have...
Dec 15 2015 Blog Post Fisher II, Academic Mismatch, and the Constitution: A Legal Issue, or Just a Policy One? Matthew Vadum, Alison E. Somin Following Justice Scalia's controversial question about mismatch research at the Fisher v. Texas oral argument, some...
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What Does DOJ’s Statement of Interest Filed in the Harvard Case Mean?
Recently, the Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in a lawsuit against Harvard University...
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Trump Administration Withdraws Guidance on Affirmative Action In Admissions
On Wednesday, July 3, the Departments of Education and Justice announced that they withdrew a...
Topics
Make the Civil Rights Division Great Again? -- Notes on "This is What a Trump Civil Rights Agenda Should Look Like"
Robert Driscoll has an outstanding post up at National Review Online titled “This is What...
How Republicans Feed the Beast of Political Correctness
John Fund has an excellent column up at National Review Online on "How Republicans Feed...
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"Affirmative Action Gone Wild?": Supreme Court Upholds Race Preferences in Fisher v. University of Texas II
I like to think I am unusually gifted at political prognostication because, in 2004, I...
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Two Members of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Criticize Racially Themed Housing on College Campuses
Should colleges and universities be in the business of operating racially separate “theme housing?” Two...
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Should Congress Enact the Blue Lives Matter Act of 2016?
Recently, Representative Ken Buck introduced the Blue Lives Matter Act of 2016, which would amend...
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The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and Russia Today
Yesterday, Commissioners Gail Heriot and Peter Kirsanow sent a letter explaining why they had declined to...
Topics
Fisher II, Academic Mismatch, and the Constitution: A Legal Issue, or Just a Policy One?
Following Justice Scalia's controversial question about mismatch research at the Fisher v. Texas oral argument, some commentators have...
Fisher II, Academic Mismatch, and the Constitution: A Legal Issue, or Just a Policy One?
Following Justice Scalia's controversial question about mismatch research at the Fisher v. Texas oral argument, some...